On 2017-05-17 8:02 PM, Brent Kinsey wrote:
> a color difference between the new nickel and the original nickel due to
contemporary changes in the alloy makeup of nickel plate. The original has just
the slightest yellow to it and the modern nickel plate is a "whiter"

I recall my father making a hitch for his new 1960 Olds and having it 
nickel-plated. There was not a trace of yellow as I recall: it was 
mirror-like. So that  change is not exactly recent.

Don, now mostly recovered from attempting to balance the wheels on a 
tailed grinder

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